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Friday, October 28, 2011

Japan Picture of the Week Kurashiki Ivy Square

Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture, Japan is one of the best places to take a stroll in all of Japan. It has the famous Bikan Historical area, which you can read about here with its canal framed with weeping willows and filled with koi.

Kurashiki Ivy Square is an entertainment area made up of brick buildings covered in beautiful ivy. The complex includes museums, restaurants and an excellent hotel. It is quite an old area and was the site of the first modern cotton mill in Japan. The brick buildings that make up the complex were originally built as part of the mill in 1889.